Friday, January 06, 2012

I'll be tweeting WOTY activities. For the moment, a list of nominees has been provided by Ben Zimmer, here.

Right now, listening to incredible presentations about the Dictionary of American Regional English by Michael Paul Adams, Grant Barrett and Tom Purnell. I have now seen a copy of the last volume of DARE, touched it, and looked at it. Wow.

5 comments:

I'm so jealous! I've always wanted to visit Oregon since I read Francis Parkman at university.It looks as if 'occupy' is WOTY. Sorry, but it gets the thumbs down from me. I prefer 'bazinga' (not even nominated) from 'The Big Bang Theory' - my fifteeen-year-old daughter's a big fan -, or even the new (?) use of 'hash', from 'How I met Your Mother'.